And if after a drie Sommer (as write the auntient Phisitions) the North winde doeth long continue in the Harueste, then the bodies of women, and suche diseased with a moiste sicknesse, doe then in that season the rather recouer health, in that the drinesse of the seasons and windes is contrarie to the excesse, and to the rottennesse of the humors, by whiche the sicknesses were caused.
And if the Winter shall be hote and moiste, and the Spring colde and drie, then doth the same threaten sicknesse to men in the Sommer, and that women with childe shall haue vntimely birthes of a light occasion.
And Hypocrates writeth, that when in the Winter be longer Northerly windes, and in the Spring longer Southerlye windes, and that raynie and wette in the Sommer following, then doeth followe Agues, and the Diseases of the eies.
And when after a colde Winter, and that South windes and raynie in the Spring, and that the Sommer be drie then in the Haruest following doe agues ensue, paines also of the bowels thoroughe the greate scouring of the bodie, and Sicknesses, with the whiche olde men, diseased persons, and children be then more pained.
And when the Southwest winde doth long blowe aboute the end of Haruest, then those persons diseased with a long sicknesse, do shortly after die.
And a further knowlege of dearth and plentie of victualles, and of sickenesse may be had on this wise.
Firste in the end of Haruest, cutte open two or thrée Oke apples, looking whether there be in them either Flyes, Worms, or Spiders.
For if in the Oke apple be founde Wormes, or Magots, then they signifie (after the opinion of auncient husbandmen) to the dearth and scarcitie in that yeare.
And if the Oke apple cut open be founde like to flies, it doth after threaten battel to ensue in that yeare.
And if in the Oke apple be founde like to Spiders, then doe they foreshewe the plague or pestilence to ensue in that yeare.